On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:25:05PM +1000, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> was heard to say: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:13:30AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Do not forget, though, that with aptitude becoming the prefered tool > > for package management (over plain apt-get), this is no longer true. > > "aptitude install gnome" will mark all of its dependencies as "auto", > > i.e. just installed because of a dependency. Which means that > > "aptitude remove gnome" will want to remove all the dependencies _for > > real_, unless they have been previously marked as "noauto" by hand. > > What will "aptitude remove gnome-games" do? Remove gnome, leaving the deps > behind, or remove gnome and then remove it's deps because they're auto? It'll remove both gnome and its dependencies (assuming nothing else depends on them). Daniel
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